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Daughter of a poor miller of Lourdes in the edge of the Pyrenees, Bernadette Soubirous at 14 was a pious, illiterate child, frail and asthmatic. One February day 75 years ago she went out looking for firewood with her sister Marie and a friend named Jeanne. When they reached the icy river Gave de Pau the other two waded in but Bernadette fearfully hung back. Then, she recounted later, she heard a terrific rumbling, a rushing as of wind. In a nearby grotto she beheld a golden cloud in which appeared a "beautiful lady," in a blue-sashed white gown...
Next to St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the "Little Flower" of the Infant Jesus who died in young, frail sanctity in 1897, no woman of modern times is more famed among Roman Catholics than another frail young Frenchwoman who died in 1879. All the vast majesty of St. Peter's at Rome was needed for the ceremonies which will make a saint of Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes this week...
...delegates, frail, pallid Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Robert W. Bingham and smart, sharp-nosed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, newly appointed Minister to Latvia, Estonia & Lithuania, promptly tried to save the Wheat Pact by proposing to offer Russia a quota 8,000,000 bu. greater than her hypothetical allotment...
...Broadway (Broadway-Hollywood) is a feature-length production based on the frail supposition that the spectacle of a Broadway colyumist introducing pseudo-celebrities constitutes entertainment. It shows Colyumist Ed Sullivan of the New York Daily News chatting with patrons and performers at three Manhattan cafés, includes glimpses of Lupe Velez, Primo Camera, Ruth Etting, Ernst Lubitsch, et al. amiably dancing, talking, bowing. Best shot: Pugilist Maxie Rosenbloom looking bored...
...operating subsidiaries of merger-born Socony-Vacuum Corp). Socony is a Chinese institution. Socony has sold kerosene in China for more than 50 years.* Socony's agents are venerated in the community. Socony's ships thoughtfully slow down so that their wash will not upset frail sampans bound down river...